Webster County Library

A reader responds to a recent review of Jeanne Theoharis’s “Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.”    

Readers respond to a recent review of Jeff Chu’s new book.    

A reader responds to a recent review of Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry.    

Jennifer Gilmore’s novel centers on the complexities of adoption.    

John le Carré appears in the trailer for his new novel, “A Delicate Truth.”    

Elizabeth Becker’s exposé considers the global travel industry’s growing toll on the planet.    

Meg Wolitzer says looking at the cover of her novel “The Interestings,” at No. 11 on the hardcover fiction list, is “like walking into a painting done at summer camp by a very young Mark Rothko.”    

Paperback books of particular interest.    

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.    

David Sheff’s message to policy makers and others is that drug addiction is primarily a health problem.    

Anne Carson returns to the Greek myth she first explored in “Autobiography of Red.”    

Humanity’s experience has been marked by cooperation as much as conflict, a historian argues.    

“The Other Child,” by Charlotte Link, is told in part from the perspective of a woman who was evacuated to the English countryside in 1940 during the London blitz.    

This new novel is based on the lives of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald.    

Clive James takes on a verse translation of Dante’s “Divine Comedy.”    

Blake Bailey traces the rise and fall of Charles Jackson.    

The life of a 19th-century public intellectual, writer and feminist.    

Meg Wolitzer’s characters meet at an arts camp and stay connected as their life paths diverge.    

Should novelists try harder to confront long-term environmental crises?    

More than 150 years after his sojourn at Walden Pond, Thoreau’s journal is helping scientists monitor climate change.